You might notice one thing fairly quickly — we’re an interesting, diverse bunch of people. Fascinating, even. So what are we all doing hanging out here? Well, all of us love writing, and we love science fiction. Sooner or later, we were all going to get around to writing science fiction. We write all different […]

Decoding THE IMITATION GAME: Fact and Fiction in the Film and Alan Turing’s Place in the SF Genre by Timothy S. Johnston — “Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.” The above phrase is spoken no less than three times in […]

JUPITER ASCENDING opens in North American theaters today. The film is written, produced, and directed by The Wachowskis, and co-produced by Grant Hill, who acted as executive producer on The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, and as producer on V for Vendetta, Speed Racer, Ninja Assassin, and Cloud Atlas, making Jupiter Ascending his seventh […]

The contributors to Contact-Infinite Futures talk about their favorite science fiction films. Timothy S. Johnston, writer of futuristic thrillers including The Furnace (2013), The Freezer (2014), and The Void (2015), says Planet of the Apes (1968), The Thing (1982), and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) are his three favorite science fiction movies. “APES was […]

The Void by Timothy S. Johnston (Carina Press, 30 March 2015) A Tanner Sequence Novel Transporting a serial killer might seem like a simple job for Homicide Investigator Kyle Tanner. But when his ship breaks down in interstellar space and another murderer starts carving a path through the people around him, Tanner realizes that […]

IN THE VOID is the sequel to the successful first book in the Tales from the Edge series, IN THE BLACK! Book two of Tales from the Edge Catherine Rodgers doesn’t like Mercy spaceships, or the courtesans who work on them–not after her husband left her for a Mercy woman. But after her luxurious transport […]

Why Set a Murder Mystery on Europa? or … What Really is the Most Dangerous Life-Form in the Solar System? In The Furnace, my claustrophobic murder mystery that took place at a power-generating station in close orbit around the sun, I forced protagonist Kyle Tanner into a brutal situation, basically a descent into hell. Trapped […]

It used to be that you could write a novel and put it in a drawer for six to twelve months. In fact, that used to be recommended. Lately, you can’t stop for long at all before your science fiction just becomes the present. NASA has just validated the principles behind an “impossible” space drive, […]

It’s been a great few months for the first book in the “Tales from the Edge” series with “In the Black” grabbing some faboo reviews! RT Reviews gave it 4/5 stars and said it was “a fast-paced tale of murder & mystery in outer space”! And the next story in the series, “In the Void” comes out […]